Culture

For the second year, John McCaskill (owner of MegaFauna) and Leif Sunde (owner of Loud Sound Management) are giving you one more reason to celebrate the end of the workweek. The Final Friday Music Walk & Urban Bazaar highlights the RiNo neighborhood—all activities...

Given the pre-show hubbub around last Friday's marijuana-friendly event staged by the Colorado Symphony Orchestra (CSO), attendees may have been surprised at the utter lack of armored police vehicles, drug-sniffing dogs, or jonesing stoners scaling the walls for a mere sampling of this...

Many Colorado artists are inspired by nature. Not so many use the natural world as their medium. Denver-born, Golden-based artist Gayle Crites is one of the latter. Her mixed-media explorations of the environment, conservation, and the lessons we can learn from ancient communities and peoples are...

As Colorado-born pop acts such as One Republic and the Lumineers have grabbed mercurial musical headlines in recent years, Nathaniel Rateliff has always been chugging along. Denver’s pre-eminent singer-songwriter has been a local fixture thanks to his uniquely personal blend of lyrical and musical...

No matter how hot it gets during the day, summer nights in Colorado are a chance to cool off and relax—and what better way to do that than under a silver screen.
Movie Night at Coors Field: Watch The Sandlot after the Colorado Rockies play the Minnesota Twins on Sunday, July 13....

How does a heroin addict turn into an Ironman-Triathlon competitor? For Colorado native Shane Niemeyer, it all started with a failed suicide attempt in prison—and a magazine article on six-time Ironman champion Dave Scott. Niemeyer latched onto training for an event that requires swimming...

Colorado’s opera legacy dates back to the mining boom of the late 1800s, when opera houses popped up in mountain towns to entertain the throngs of prospectors setting up camp. In the ensuing decades, dozens of such venues—and their respective companies—were founded, and still stand today. Revel...

Most "creative retreats" take place precisely where you'd expect: near the mountains, in the woods, by bodies of water. These areas blessed by Mother Nature are, well, naturally inspiring for artists, makers, and otherwise imaginative people. Helen Rice, owner of Willow – An Artisan's Market...